Which of the following is(are) at the top of the executive branch hierarchy?

the Executive Office of the President

The bureaucracy charged with managing all executive branch bureaucracies is the

Executive Office of the President

administrative agencies in charge of carrying out government operations in general policy areas

cabinet departments

There are ________ cabinet departments.

15

Which of the following is NOT a cabinet department?

a.the Department of the Treasury

b.the Executive Office of President

c.the Department of Justiced.

d.the Department of State

The ability of lower-level bureaucrats to informally set policy is known as

the power of the street-level beauracrat

The bureaucracy can be considered the fourth branch of government.

true

The ________ was held up as a model of the positives of deregulation in 1999, although a decade later, it has been harshly criticized for promoting massive institutions that sunk the globe into the Great Recession in 2008

Financial Modernization Act (FMA)

The process used by bureaucratic agencies to establish whether a rule has been violated is:

adjudication.

The relationship between an interest group, the bureaucracy, and congressional committees is referred to as a/an

iron triangle

In monitoring the bureaucracy, Congress and its committees tend to rely on ________, which kicks in once a warning has been made

fire alarm oversight

The massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, is a classic ________, with vigorous oversight beginning after a catastrophe, not before

fire alarm oversight scenario

________ require bureaucratic decision making be made in public

Sunshine laws

Congress can use the ________ to reject a proposed action by a public agency, as a check on the bureaucracy

legislative veto

The president has the largely controversial power to issue ________, which are directives that have the force of law, even though they are not passed by Congress.

executive orders

Our prof thinks term limits are a ____ idea for 3 reasons. what are those reasons.

bad.

un-traditional

un-constitutional

un-democratic

court cases involving congressional election political equality

colgrove vs. green-"political question"

baker v carr-"justifiable issue"

wesbury v Sanders: "one person, one vote"

reynolds v Simms: "one person one vote in both houses of state legeislatures